To find it bizarre and startling that there's a product on TV being advertised to "for softer stools"

[LittleBellatrixLeBoot]

And we're not talking about ones you sit on.

So why is there such a large demand for stool-softeners among women (because that's obviously the target group)?

What the fuck are some of you eating?

do you ever watch any programmes?

I find it more bizarre that the ad agency pitched it as some women sitting around in a coffee shop discussing said 'hard stools'
Cos that always happens with me!

LOL, I've had the TV on all day and honestly, these ads. Now I know why I don't usually watch that much TV.

I'm sure I've no idea why such a product would be needed.

Same question in this house. Is there really a population of people who need low grade laxatives to get their digestive systems to function?!!!

Lard, chips, cardboard - just the usual. Oddly, I have stools like house bricks.

Actually, I had REALLY bad constipation after DS1's birth (too frightened to go, then it became IMPOSSIBLE to go), and ended up taking Lactulose. DP said to me at the time, 'You'll never laugh at the Senacot advert again, will you?'

hey, don't be a mocking stool softeners. Lactulose transformed my mothers life (I'm not joking), she's never been so happy since starting it. I doubt she's ever discussed it in a coffee shop with her girlfriends though.

I find unpicking the material and adding another layer of foam helps.

UCM

Sorry slubs. I was trying to be smart and certainly not taking the piss out of your mothers stools.

well I think extracting urine from feacal matter (softened or not) is impossible...2 different excretory channels don't you know.

I though you had miss posted and there was going to be a post on a lovely soft poo experience from you on an arts and crafts thread.

that should be faecal obviously

I find the Senokot one with the two women doing karaoke more disturbing. It's the way they bang their arses together whilst singing, I wouldn't risk it just in case...

Ooh, I've missed that one.

I'm not anti laxative as such; after an op, if you've got some kind of stomach condition or bowel problem; but it's the assumption in the ad that normal healthy women should be using laxatives.

Do so many women have such bad diets? Because in order to pay the money for a TV ad, they must have decided there's a big enough money to make it worth it.

Sorry, big enough market I mean.

wow what are they called? it's no joke to have hard stools

that ad does make me rofl

'bowel stuff'

with accompanying bulging eyes

Oh, I know! The woman with the 'bowel stuff' and her wide eyes and pinched little face, makes me roffle too!

And the woman who carries the dulcoease (oh gawd I can remember the name)in her handbag?? Why carry something like that!?

When she says 'you need dulcoease' I feel like shouting 'you need to drink more water and eat more fruit and veg'

I really must get out more!

LOL Hippo, that's roughly what I was thinking!

Also "stop doing bloody stupid diets, stop calling plain old-fashioned crash diets de-toxing, eat properly and you won't need laxatives, you wierdie woman."

Imagine finding it normal to need to take laxatives when you haven't actually been diagnosed with something.

Although my mother and her family always had to take Senokot when they were children every Saturday, because for some reason their parents thought it was healthy. 4 of them now have bowel disorders of one type or another.

LittleBellatrixLeBoot I find myself agreeing with you emphatically practically every day.

It's the way these ads make out that it is a universal part of the female experience to have hard stools - the sort of 'we've all been there!' tone.

I want to hand them a tin of prunes, or a nice ripe pear.
(Come to think about it, the Fruit Marketing Board, if it exists, is missing a trick here.)

LOL Kathy.

Exactly, I'm insulted by the idea that I'm so stupid that I can't even manage to eat properly.

FFS.

Never mind us women..............I saw one the other day for kids, Started with a really sad looking kid then her mother gave her a laxative and she was mush happier...suprise suprise. Poor Kid

Personally I find drinking lots of fluid and eating a fair amount of fibre works for me..... but then I'm sure that I've never consulted my gfs on my stool movements. Not even when I'm pissed.

Mind I do talk a lot of crap when I'm drunk so maybe I have .

Oh that is tragic. (In the context of that Jamie Oliver school dinners programme where the doctors told them about all those poor bunged up children vomiting semi-digested faeces, particularly.)